Flying Whales drums: tempo, difficulty and parts
Flying Whales by Gojira is 191 BPM and runs 7:35: 324 bars and 3,779 notes played on the kick, ride, snare, crash, floor tom, hi-hat, tom 2 and tom 1.
The drum part is rated Extreme — one of the hardest parts here, best learned a section at a time.
It has 7 fills, its longest section is the Arpeggios (1:01) and the hi-hat opens as well as closes.
Song map
- Intro
- Band In
- Arpeggios
- Bridge
- Main riff
- Band In
- Verse
- Bridge
- Verse
- Bridge
- Interlude
- Breakdown 1
- Breakdown verse
- Interlude
- Breakdown 2
- Breakdown verse
- Bridge
- Outro
How to play Flying Whales on drums
- Plug in your electronic drum kit over USB — or play on the keyboard.
- Press play. The notes of Flying Whales come down in time with the recording. Play it in Beatfall or read it as drum notation.
- Slow it down. Take the Fill into Verse at 0.5× or 0.75× with a click and a count-in, then bring it up to 191 BPM.
- Check every hit — on time, early or late — before you record your Flying Whales drum cover.
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